What is the history of Aries?

Answer 1

The history of Aries is quite a tale, exciting and draws many astrologists in. Here it is for those who wish to find out....

The History of Aries

The Egyptian mythology is even more advanced than the Greeks ever were, but apparently the Greeks found the basic for the ancient Egyptians way of thinking.

I have been pretty unsure as to how I would go about, telling you about ancient Egyptian mythology, much is actually known, but it is very hard to understand (merely because of our always and ongoing stupidity of war and such larger dilemmas). So I am just going to give you it straight out of the brain, and 'hope' it makes some sense -heh-

Aries is also very much known in ancient Egypt, as you have seen if you have ever been there. I think the most evident thing about astrology or even astronomy from ancient days is firstly how misunderstood these concepts are, but also how different they both saw and called such matters. I personally do not understand why these two subjects were divided into two 'astronomy, and astrology', I personally see it as two sides of one coin (if I should say it a little different way, than normal).

Now let us take a good look at Aries, which is personified as a Ram. Like I said before, you can see Ram's a lot of places in Egypt, but most central you will find them in the old city of Thebes (Luxor), at the entrance for the Karnak temple. When you hear professors and guides talk about the Ram, they will most likely be talking about the famous Khnum. But I will draw your attention away from their version, merely because of what is found. Actually there are three Ram gods so fare known in ancient Egyptian history, where rightly one is called Khnum. But I have never heard anybody speak of the two others, which I find quit odd, because I see them as I do…

So as you see, the story gives us plenty of answers. Banebdjedet and the other rams gave us Aries. I will give you the story about the other rams. includingBanebdjedet's...

Banebdjedets

The first of the two unknown Ram gods is 'Banebdjedet' which means 'the ba Lord of Djedet'. So if we read this correct, we easily see that this gods name is probably divided into two words like this: 'Baneb-Djedet'. Djedet is a word in itself in ancient Egypt, which means the back bone of Osiris, which would make this 'the god of, the soul and strength of Osiris back bone'. Another thing worth mentioning is, the word 'ba' sounds the same as pronouncing 'ram' in ancient Egypt, and 'ba' means = Spirit or soul - so in the mind of the ancient these two words were linked.

To begin with the Ram was a representation of the 'Soul of Osiris', When the Greek came to rule, the Ram was seen as having four manifestations - the soul of Re, Osiris, Shu and Geb. He is linked to many important pharaohs, who embedded this god into their own birth-mythology-story.

Heryshefis the next ram god that is rarely mentioned, his name literally means 'he who is upon his lake'. For the ancient Greeks this character was 'Herakles'. In the ancient mythology Heryshef was associated with both Osiris and Rá, and he was seen as the 'ba' of these two great gods.

He was usually represented as a Ram-headed man, wearing a royal kilt and the Atef Crown

We know that the ancient Babylonians, Egyptian's, Persians and the Greeks, all called this constellation for 'Aries'. The Zodiac circle starts in the sign of Aries, which is supposed to correspond to the Sun once in ancient days having entered into the sign of Aries around the spring equinox (this is not how it is today, where the Sun is in Pisces at that time).

Now to understand more about Aries and the other constellation, we must look upon some old Greek mythology.

and the final ram... Pentheus

No-one knows about Pentheus and so I cannot tell you what I do not know. But what I do know is that he completed the Aries legend..